Description

McAfee Labs&trade recognizes that this program may have legitimate uses in contexts where an authorized administrator has knowingly installed this application. If you agreed to a license agreement for this or another bundled application, you may have legal obligations with regard to removing this software, or to using the host application without this software. Please contact the software vendor for further information.

This software is not a virus or a Trojan. It is detected as a "potentially unwanted program" (PUP). PUPs are any piece of software that a reasonably security- or privacy-minded computer user may want to be informed of and, in some cases, remove. PUPs are often made by a legitimate corporate entity for some beneficial purpose, but they alter the security state of the computer on which they are installed, or the privacy posture of the user of the system, such that most users will want to be aware of them.

Symptoms

This symptoms of this detection are the files, registry, and network communication referenced in the characteristics section.

Method

This is not a virus or Trojan. PUPs do not "infect" systems. They may be installed by a user individually or possibly as a part of a software package (in a bundle, for example).

Virus Characteristics

This software is not a virus or a Trojan. It is detected as a "potentially unwanted program" (PUP). PUPs are any piece of software that a reasonably security- or privacy-minded computer user may want to be informed of and, in some cases, remove. PUPs are often made by a legitimate corporate entity for some beneficial purpose, but they alter the security state of the computer on which they are installed, or the privacy posture of the user of the system, such that most users will want to be aware of them.

File Properties

Property Values

McAfee Detection

RDN/Generic PUP.x

Length

1180168 bytes

MD5

8baeeedb6ebe40a19c7a40d3647aecbd

SHA1

5f3076f93313c6a165b6cf40f07a097950a9cea1

Other Common Detection Aliases

Company Names

Detection Names

AVG (GriSoft)

Generic26.BUQE (Trojan horse)

avira

TR/Buzy.4723.6

BitDefender

Gen:Variant.Application.InstallCore.1

clamav

PUA.Win32.Packer.UpxProtector

Dr.Web

Adware.InstallCore.14

F-Prot

W32/Infostealer.A!Maximus

FortiNet

W32/InstallCore.gen

Symantec

Spyware.Keylogger

Eset

Win32/InstallCore.Gen (application)

rising

AdWare.Win32.InstallCore.b

Trend Micro

TROJ_AG.C0F96354

vba32

Trojan.Menti.kues

V-Buster

Trojan.Menti!gRsOfnfGKt4 (trojan)

Other brands and names may be claimed as the property of others.

Activities

Risk Levels

Attempts to connect to a high risk domain that may pose a security risk.

Creates one or more shortcuts (.LNK files) to provide user accessible links to start a program usually form the desktop or start menu.

Modifications made to the system Registry and/or INI files for the purposes of hooking system startup, will be successfully removed if cleaning with the recommended engine and DAT combination (or higher).

1. Please go to the Microsoft Recovery Console and restore a clean MBR.

On windows XP:

Insert the Windows XP CD into the CD-ROM drive and restart the computer.When the "Welcome to Setup" screen appears, press R to start the Recovery Console.Select the Windows installation that is compromised and provide the administrator passwordIssue 'fixmbr' command to restore the Master Boot RecordFollow onscreen instructionsReset and remove the CD from CD-ROM drive.

On Windows Vista and 7:

Insert the Windows CD into the CD-ROM drive and restart the computer.Click on "Repair Your Computer"When the System Recovery Options dialog comes up, choose the Command Prompt.Issue 'bootrec /fixmbr' command to restore the Master Boot RecordFollow onscreen instructionsReset and remove the CD from CD-ROM drive.